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	<title>Pitch Black Magazine &#187; Inside The Musician&#8217;s Studio</title>
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	<description>Alberta's Hard Rock and Metal 'Zine</description>
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		<title>Inside The Musician&#8217;s Studio With Gene Hoglan</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/07/01/gene-hoglan</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Porosky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relax and have fun. According to living metal legend Gene Hoglan, that&#8217;s the key to drumming. After all, “It&#8217;s not &#8216;rocket surgery;&#8217; it&#8217;s just drums,” he exclaims.
“A lot of guys turn it into something really intense and difficult and not fun,” Hoglan states.
“When you&#8217;re all tensed up, that just makes it not fun, and you get this horrible struggling strained face on. That looks like you&#8217;re killing yourself, and that doesn&#8217;t look like fun. Unless you like looking like that,” he laughs. “I try to practice Occam&#8217;s Razor when it ...]]></description>
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		<title>Studios For Starters</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/06/01/studios-for-starters</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryce Cram</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve decided you&#8217;re going to record your first demo, or maybe you&#8217;re going to go straight for the glory of an EP or full-length album. Whatever the case, the whole band has been practicing hard, working on every little detail in every song. You&#8217;ve even played some shows and had all your friends come out and get wasted with you at the end of the night saying, &#8220;Hey man, when do I get to hear this at home or in my car? You guys rule!&#8221;
You&#8217;ve had a couple engineers ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Show</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/05/01/the-perfect-show</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 06:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryce Cram</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have planned everything perfectly and promoted your show to the best of your ability: hung posters, handed out handbills, stormed the Internet, called and texted all your friends, practiced hard to play a killer gig. Five hours before the doors open, you arrive at the venue ablaze with the fire of a perfectly executed metal show.
Taking the time to help the manager move all the tables, you set the lights up meticulously so that no band or entertainment is left out, and arrange and perfect every detail to its finest ...]]></description>
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		<title>Your Band As A Business</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/04/01/your-band-as-a-business</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Wallace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although we sometimes hate to admit it, being in a band is really no different than being the owner of a business. Whether you started jamming in your garage with a couple of friends for the sole purpose of having a good time or have plans to one day tour the globe, at the end of the day there is simply no denying that the success of your band depends on all the same things. Marketing, finance, accounting, and leadership all play important roles when it comes to being in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Vocal Basics</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/extreme-vocal-basics</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You hear the buzzing of drunken voices cluttering the room and you start to get excited. You can literally smell the heavy metal in the air from the 200 sweating bodies that just moshed their asses off to the band before you. You see your band mates plugging in the last of their cables and you hear the last floor tom sound check fire off like a cannon. You walk on stage and grip the mic like it&#8217;s your last bottle of water in the desert. You look out into the crowd and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Metal School</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/02/01/metal-school</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monika Deviat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, school and heavy metal are mixing in a variety of ways. Many musicians in our local Alberta bands are also pursuing a post secondary education, but getting a university degree or a college diploma is not an easy task in first place. Throw in the commitments of a band, and your workload seems to increase exponentially. Certain considerations will come up, such as choosing between your band and school. If that opportunity to tour say, Europe, comes up in the middle of a semester do you drop all ...]]></description>
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		<title>Highway Hankerings And Other Food For Thought</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/01/01/highway-hankerings</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Porosky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When heading out on tour, one of the most important details to consider is also one of the least or last thought of. What the hell are we gonna eat?
For most bands, the first trip, even if just across the province, involves booking the gigs, finding &#8220;reliable&#8221; transportation, packing the gear and hoping you&#8217;ve got a place to sleep after the show. Food is often secondary. It&#8217;s also one of the biggest money mongers if you&#8217;re touring for more than a couple of days, and it seems the more you ...]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Metal Wishlist</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2009/12/01/merry-metal-wishlist</link>
		<comments>http://pitchblack.ca/2009/12/01/merry-metal-wishlist#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Baldwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahhh, Christmas! It’s the time of year when kids of all ages dream of getting free stuff from friends and relatives alike. And if you have a musician on your list, they can be the hardest people to buy for. Let’s face it, most of us tend to be notoriously picky about our gear, and more often than not, we want the good stuff. Throw in the tendency of players of all shapes and sizes to suffer from GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome), and you have a difficult task ahead of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Agents Vs. Managers</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2009/11/01/agents-vs-managers</link>
		<comments>http://pitchblack.ca/2009/11/01/agents-vs-managers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Baldwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are in a band, chances are you’ve at least thought about getting a manager, or an agent, or both. But what’s the difference between the two? What do they do? And for that matter, does your band really need either of them?
When the term agent is used in conjunction with the music business, it generally means a booking agent. As the name would imply, a booking agent’s job is to book shows for the artists he or she is representing. In doing so, they negotiate minimum payments, the ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Shred</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2009/10/01/the-art-of-shred</link>
		<comments>http://pitchblack.ca/2009/10/01/the-art-of-shred#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Porosky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To think of shredding conjures up images of famous guitarists like Ulrich Roth, Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen, just to name a very small few from the world stage.
Alberta has its very own league of shredders that shouldn’t be underestimated.
Joe Sikorski, guitarist for Calgary grindcore act Exit Strategy, has been known to shred things up a time or two.
“Cornflakes, guitars, paper, miscellaneous odds and ends, you know,” laughs Sikorski, who was also a member of Thorazine, Caveat and Blacksky.
But what about shred guitar?
“I can give the clinical definition, which ...]]></description>
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